SYNC

NAME

SYNOPSIS

#include <unistd.h>

void sync(void);

DESCRIPTION

sync
first commits inodes to buffers, and then buffers to disk.

ERRORS

This function is always successful.

CONFORMING TO

SVr4, SVID, X/OPEN, BSD 4.3

BUGS

According to the standard specification (e.g., SVID),
fBsync()fP schedules the writes, but may return before the actual
writing is done.
However, since version 1.3.20 Linux does actually wait.
(This still does not guarantee data integrity: modern disks have
large caches.)

NOTES

Since glibc 2.2.2 the Linux prototype is as listed above,
following the various standards. In libc4, libc5, and glibc up to 2.2.1
it was "int sync(void)", and sync always returned 0.